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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5343 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 198 01 May 2014 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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And we have started in all time zones :-)
For those of you who need to register, or want to look at the rules please see here: SUPER CHALLENGE RULES AND REGISTRATION And now in this thread you can make your updates, and give advice on content. The Super Challenge 2014-15 is officially rolling! If you want to discuss interpretation of rules or give advice on content go to the brand new discussion thread that I have opened: NEW DISCUSSION THREAD 2014-15 Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 01 May 2014 at 11:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5343 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 198 01 May 2014 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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1. Robin Hood (Disney) I figured it would be better to start with something easy, and this little jewel that I have known forever seemed like a good bet. I watched it last night, after midnight, and I am happy that although I cannot follow all the dialogue, I can still recognise a lot more words and sentences, than last year. I think I will start out with my Disney movies, progress to Twilight and American comedies in translation, then more serious American movies, and then at the end, actual Russian movies. I am so happy to have started! BOOKS 1. Agatha Christie: Appointment with death - first 50 pages In a moment of hubris, I thought: "Hey, if I can do 50 pages a day, I can sweep through Russian literature in no time". Delusional. Totally delusional. The only reason why I could do 50 pages today was because I have just been reading part of the book in April, and have looked up some of the words, because this is a holiday and because I got up at 5 to start reading and have spent all day on it. Not something I can reproduce on a daily basis. But I am still euphoric. When I read a Russian book last year, I understood perhaps 5-10%, and now I am up to 40%. Compared to those who only have to look up 5-10 words a page, that may seem ridiculous, but for me that is a huge step. I read a lot out loud in order to figure out the unknown words, and it actually helps a lot. [ Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 05 May 2014 at 12:25am 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5245 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 3 of 198 01 May 2014 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Watched two films in French: Game of Death & Avengers, listened to 1 hour podcast in French.
But I've only read 2 pages in French! and nothing in Italian (Although I had an hour language exchange in Italian, so bit of a time sink) As I suspected reading is going to be a problem for me. I'm thinking about abandoning the book I started on for a simple reader to get more pages. sigh.... I'll stick with the plan for 7 days at least before doing readjustments to the plan. I'm sure I can knock out the 2 films in Italian and hope to make up on the reading. I can barely drag my butt out of bed for 6:30 to go to work, so getting up early is a non starter! I admire your fortitude Serpent! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5343 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 198 01 May 2014 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Serpent?
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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5195 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 5 of 198 02 May 2014 at 5:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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Have done an initial update in my log. Further updates will be every Thursday. I'll be
keeping an eye on this thread as well, to see what everyone's up to. Good luck everyone! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5245 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 6 of 198 02 May 2014 at 10:16am | IP Logged | |||||
DOOH! Sorry Solfrid, it is actually YOU that I admire. :)) *scratching head* - I'm sure I dictated that to my secretary correctly. Edited by rdearman on 02 May 2014 at 10:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5343 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 198 02 May 2014 at 11:03am | IP Logged | |||||
If you were to mistake me for anyone, I am flattered that it was Serpent, and if you disregard the fact that she is a young, slender black haired Russian, and I am a middle aged, plump, blond Norwegian we are practically identical twins :-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4774 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 198 02 May 2014 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I started out with my own version of easy.
I've been reading and listening to a Spanish translation of James Oliver Curwood's _Kazan_. I plan to listen to a half hour of the audiobook and read aloud a half hour daily during my regular language study time. The audiobook is read faster than I can read aloud, so I'm reading things that I recently listened to. I've got fifteen books ready to got this way if I still want to do it after the first one. I've been sort of shocked how well I am doing understanding the audiobook. I also put a bunch of the book into anki. I've been working on getting to 10000 sentences, and so I'm getting the translator's idiolect in my daily anki dose also. Of course I'm not counting anki as a part of this challenge, but it looks to me like it may make a nice adjunct, as long as I can get through my anki without taking too much time away from extensive listening and reading. I've reduced my new card count down to 20 a day for now. I've the Spanish versions of several of the first books I read when I was learning to read English. It's a trip down memory lane. I'll move into native, untranslated material eventually... Edited by sfuqua on 02 May 2014 at 7:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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